Abstract

An important role for the communication management inhuman communication is head nods, e.g. as nonverbal feedback signal.Based on a Japanese study with virtual agents, have showed that theusing head nods in virtual agents elicited more verbal output from theuser, we look into the use of head nods in communications between userand a humanoid robot, Keepon robot and a virtual agent resembling acat that the user encounters for the first time.

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An important role for the communication management inhuman communication is head nods, e.g. as nonverbal feedback signal.Based on a Japanese study with virtual agents, have showed that theusing head nods in virtual agents elicited more verbal output from theuser, we look into the use of head nods in communications between userand a humanoid robot, Keepon robot and a virtual agent resembling acat that the user encounters for the first time.